Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-01-19
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
THE investments IN cattle N Colorado
amount 10 over $50, .0HO,

rejoice to know that til" great Hszt wis
| IN mber uf he craft .t"4ib5
-FOUR MEMBERS OF GOV. Amos tMasSa-
+ chusrtts) stan can read Homer-in thc origi-
/ nal and : ear IN Sa- crit.
Gov. SwINEF RD. of Alaska. alleges thai the
! white population nf Alaska has more IMAM
! doubled IN eighteen m IN hs.
! GAS struck in the Big sandy, XIV, region ia
! to he crrr,ed hv q $40 OJl pipe line for Use
| IN Cincinnati, $50 mi e. away.
SIZE South African fir hates the white
! man "nh his dog sh the hatred. A hathr
| Dig bites WINE ma at sight
THIS COUNTRY produced $3.50 900 tons OF pig
| ron and 1880 90 'nns II steel rails il 1856
| We seem 10 be DO ng a heavy business.
THE Sucz canal is to be maze ready thia
month for night traffic through its entire
length by steamers provided with eleclrc
/ lights.
A CONVICT WITNESS in an arson case on
trial IN New Haven. Conn, created sensa-
IT, n Ivy accusing the counsel fIr the pro ecu
ton of trying To brbe HIM by presents of rum
and money while in pT son.
BoTH the Etruria and the Umbria, cf the
Cunard line, have averaged in nine tran at
| lantic voyages a eneed Of nearly twenty 0na
miles p r h0u". Thi- m ans one dav less OF
sea sickne or the average passenger.
THEY have a toboI an slide at Bismarck,
ID. T., where it is said that steel shod tohng-
gans acquire a velo ity of three miles min
ute. But they are ed TO Billiards out that
way and can stan III current of air.
ILL-CoNsIDERED LEGISLATION in Mime
sofa resulted in the creation of State OH IL.
> ector. Last year this official pocketed over
500 600 in fees nd con lem ned Just !23 barrels
"f oil NV the members of the Nil eso'a
| legislature are tumbilng over each ether in
| heir haste to introduce bills abolishing the
office.
THE Dismal Swamp Of Virginia is no longer
use 4 shelter for runaway negroes. be-
' eau. e the negroes no longer have to run AWAY
but 1t Is calculated that it is the hiding y ace
of n less ,hHn 100 white men, who have got
| reasons for wanting TO retire to private lift
| for a spell. grand hunt to run them out is
contemplated.
| TUE time required for a teleSraphio signal
to pass around the ear h is the subject of an
| inquiry to the Scientific American. tsiales
! thai en- II good iand telegraph line of the
! length equal 10 tn cirum rrence Of the earth
| about one second Won Il be NJ edcd. Ocean
cables won" con Iderably increase this, even
| TO several seconds.
A WATER FAMINE threatens Brooklyn. The
| depth of water in he storage reservoir is four
feet six inches, and a corps of engineers il to
be sent To Baisley'5 pond 10 raj e the banks
and dam up the waste weir. II thai way the
| yield VII be Increased t,600,000 ga ons. The
! city Ofi'i Is are becoming a.a armed at the
nadequacy of the supply.
LEGIsL TOR CALLAGHAN, of Westmoreland
county, Pa, Is catching it at home for max
ing motion that IRA err be diane sed wi h
10y the House. Pr ba iy he object d for he
same reason once given by Il prominent mem.
Or of the OHIO Senate, with 81 9ht G rmdn
accent. sand he: MIR. President, | object To-
hiring a bre acher to do m, brayIng. Whtn
wants my bra ing done can DO it myself"
TIE gum chew n@ mania should br frowned
upon for several reasons, according I, the
Dental Herald. 1t excites the en- re gandu
lar system connected with Authorization The
purpose OF the glands is C eariv established
nrir product, cannO b. wasted or diverted
to her USES without dtma-e. The human
being l. not a rumlnnnt-a 1T CheWer O e
Cl s. of animals cannot ADOPT the patura.
habits of another without suffering from 80
doing.
NATURAL GAS is by no means a recent dis
covery. Even its utilization for the purposes
OF the mechanic arts was long ago success
fully ATTEMPTED in China. where, by pipes Of
hambee. 1t was conveyed from natural wells
to suitable furnaces. ant, BY means of terra
Gotta burners, consumed. OF lis origin there
ee rs 20 be no reasonable doubt 1t arises
from the decomposition forms OF animal or
vegetable lie embedded in the rocks in suit
abe situations.
In September, 1885. the wife of Lawrence
Krug, of Chicago, died while on her wedding
tour. Her life WAS insured for 81 Co. Krug
MARI ed again, and in few mont his his second
wife dled. Two months afterward ne married
his third wife. and she died in Blk weeks. All
OF ms wives were insured. few days ago
| uaugh' or of the FIST Mrs. Krug by a former
husband dled, her Ii e also having been in
sured and Krug holding the policy. An in
Z vestigAtlOn is to be made.
TOWARD the clnse of President Jefferson,s
administration Congress appropriated $780,
OOo nnually for the support of the uniformed
militia. The present Senate and Hou e of
/ Representatives have agreed tn increase he
! appropriation tn 100000, or,in other wurIs to
ruubie II, at the same time m king addiIflnai
! pr visions tor the inspection am prcserva-
! tion of the arms. ammunition. camp euutpape
| and other supplies issued under IL aud for a
more suitable division Of those supplies
! among the States.
| ACCORDING to the latest reports about one
! third of the sand in which the Sphiix of
! Ghzeh ia embedded has ALREADY been re-
moved. The lorepaws and he right side have
| been partially brought 10 view. Tue DAVIS
| were not hewu in the stone, but were bull, m.
! of bricks. Viewed from above. the dlsint r
! red part seems lnharm0niOus: hut "a lud.,n II
~ 10 the general effect cannot be form d
| until the sand Il entire Y removed. NJ. Mas
! pcrO links u may be asCrbed u an age far
more Remote than that of pyramids
| A LITTLE GIRL of less than dozen yeara
came nome from school in town near r rs
ton, one day last week, intensely excited
about The Lexington murder. a lite in
! quiry el cit d The acJ that the teacher of the
! school rhe aitcnie !, 4 Young women had
given her class H talk bcginn ny with pIvsl-
! oOgy ana u c effects OF Jubdccp and alcohol
ard gradually working around TO tn" mnrde
she had not only talked o. 1t herse " IN
/ foolish Iuterest, put hat req ir.d the I,tt e
/ giTs, one after M other. o stand aud tell an
| they knew OF the horrible details OF the
! tragedy. 1t would be I'm possible to fanrl
any thing more morbidly and almost crlmi-
! na!ly weak fpfnued.
ITAIIxA2B4ehRs relate wonderful stories
Of LuSft 5fHtFosin, I'll Re del Cholera 1.-THE
King ~ sEhbEfh,. who has just arrived in
Rome, afcfaSweary pilgr mage on foot, and
! su mItted-to-tae King and the Venetian
Depuil es --<&tnof CONFERENCE.-The inf 4 IDLE
remedy asriust Ohio era. Gruzziutn has
earned his cnrious tile by his uuselG-h de
vntlon to chqiera pftienis, having accom-
! PANIED the plague dur ng its progress rom
! Egypt to SPAN and Italy, AMI fought il
everywhere successful $50 the story GOES
with his elixir" tcOmuouud 10 my.terIoua
and nfalliblc as Succl's Grazzintin is sand
IT, nave ept IN the same bed with cholera
paii' nts. and 10 D. s'ess numberless mrdj, nj
and municipal teatlmOulals corrohorat no
ms woudvr II cures. The papers SAY hat ali
Re dltalta' ha- received ~ r. del Cho.era"
ma c'y gracious m amer. aud promised t.
Interest the scientific word IN his disoOvery.
T cultivation Of the faculty Of knowing
lie Of comparably greater moment than The